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ActiveWin.com: Steve Ballmer Interview Questions Request | |
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| Time: 11:43 EST/16:43 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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ActiveWin.com has been fortunate enough to be granted an interview with Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer and would like to extend to our users the opportunity to post any questions you may have for him. As we did with Jim Allchin, a few of the questions users submitted were selected. We look forward to hearing what everyone has to say! |
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| #1 By 2332 (216.41.45.78) at Monday, March 01, 2004 11:02:17 AM |
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1.) Microsoft has a history of successfully adopting technologies innovated elsewhere. Granted, most useful new technology builds on older technology, but Microsoft is the undisputed king of the "embrace and extend" paradigm. What innovations do you believe are truly original to Microsoft?
2.) Security has been a big problem for Microsoft over the past several years, mostly because Microsoft is the juiciest target for hackers who want to inflate their egos by claiming the biggest of prizes. One response Microsoft has had is to offer a bounty for the capture of hackers and virus writers. What was the rationale behind this decision, and do you believe it will become a common industry practice? 3.) Rumors floating around the net suggest that "Xbox Next" will have neither a hard drive nor backwards compatibility with the original Xbox. Moving forward with new technologies is always important, but don't you think that, much like when Nintendo abandoned backwards compatibility with Gamecube, this will be a fatal mistake for Microsoft? 4.) One huge market that Microsoft is just starting to venture into is the smartphone space. With several successful products, such as the Samsung i600 and the Motorola MPx200, Microsoft is starting to make headway. Do you see Microsoft leading the way in convergent devices (PDA+Phone+Music+etc.) in the next few years? If so, what kinds of new convergent devices is Microsoft investing resources in? 5.) Have you read "Breaking Windows", by David Bank? If so, would you say he accurately describes (for better or for worse) the state of Microsoft during the hot and heavy years of the browser wars and the anti-trust trial? Did you find his portrayal of you and Bill Gates as fair? Thanks. |
| #2 By 1868 (141.133.130.68) at Monday, March 01, 2004 01:46:35 PM |
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1) Mr. Ballmer, with longhorn looking ever farther off into the horizon, how do you personally view future advances being made at Microsoft for the consumer market?
2) Given that we've moved away from the CLI interface and into the GUI era, do you foresee the GUI interface drastically changing? 3) Do you believe that Longhorn will be on par with the difference between say the Dos platform and the Windows XP platform? [A drastic change rather than a gradual technological evolution] 4) AT PDC Jim Allchin said that he was on a personal crusade for zero reboots in Longhorn, do you have a similar crusade against reboots? 5) In future technologies facial pattern recognition is being strongly researched, how do you feel about facial patterns being publicly searchable on the internet, such that by searching for a name on the internet I can find pictures of that individual, or by searching with a picture I can locate information on someone? [What privacy issues do you believe are relevant?] 6) Given the different IM applications [AIM, ICQ,MSN] do you think Longhorn will usher in a unified open standards based IM protocol? More broadly, is having a unified open standards based IM protocol of interest to you? 7) With Microsoft making inroads into the automobile-computing arena, do you foresee the X-box 2 as an in-vehicle gaming/entertainment system for children in the backseat? 8) What are the current specs for the computer you have in your office in seattle?[In a 2000 Business 2.0 picture it looked like you had a 21 inch CRT and a Dell Dimension system, have you been upgraded since?] 9) What are the main distinctions and advantages you believe exist between the Pocket PC platform and the Smart Phone platform? [at PDC I was surprised to hear grumblings that Microsoft will no longer be putting resources into the Pocket PC platform and instead focusing on Smart Phones, what are your thoughts?] 10) Given the broad scope of many CS/CIS programs at leading universities around the United States, what do you believe are the essential disciplines students should learn? 11) In a cover story, called "Broadband left me at the alter" you reflected that broadband adoption wasn't meeting expectations, so what do you believe Microsoft's role is in driving broadband adoption? [There’s been lots of talk about killer apps and withstanding online gaming and adult entertainment, I’ve yet to have Microsoft Products convince my friends that they should get broadband] 12) Given the tight security around the aero interface, it’s believed only 30-40 people have access to it, do you get to be a frontline tester for the interface on a daily basis? 13) Have you ever been bored while listening to Bill Gates’s speeches, or do you have super-human abilities and can’t be bored? 14) It's believed that you and many high level managers answered support calls when the blaster virus hit in August, is that true? This post was edited by Zeo01 on Monday, March 01, 2004 at 13:50. |
| #3 By 3 (62.252.0.4) at Monday, March 01, 2004 01:58:25 PM |
| #5 - I'm sure bob will get to the bottom of Steve's fat pipe. |
| #4 By 2 (24.239.196.15) at Monday, March 01, 2004 02:04:59 PM |
| Zeo - you should do this for a living. :) |
| #5 By 3653 (209.149.57.116) at Monday, March 01, 2004 11:43:31 PM |
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#1 - cooldev - MS Word is the new IE. Don't you realize this?
#12 - splinter3k - Ballmer an assistant manager at WalMart? How many Harvard grads end up at walmart? Exactly. None. Ballmer is ridiculously intelligent... with a work ethic to match. Thats the combination all great leaders share. But your other comments were hillarious, btw. |
| #6 By 12071 (203.185.215.149) at Tuesday, March 02, 2004 02:51:30 AM |
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#12 "How much do you guys pay Parker to defend you at ActiveWin.com?"
I second this question! Maybe they're just giving him a MCSE and free access to MSDN. Although Ballmer might be a bit too high up to know this sort of information, he'd have to check with the group that was set up a few years ago to go around spreading "the good word" of Microsoft on various sites. |
| #7 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at Tuesday, March 02, 2004 03:39:19 PM |
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Microsoft doesn't astroturf near as much as the Linux folks.
HappyPuppy - Good idea. I'm going to sponsor a constitutional amendment to eliminate buffers. |
